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Again, the G-11 delivered some very good still photo work (and on the same file size as my Canon 1D Mark IV). Since it is a fraction of the weight and bulk, it was no trouble at all to just slip it in my pocket and use it whenever I saw something interesting. Here’s a collection of a dozen photos taken with the little GIANT on the islands of Oahu, Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii.

On our first night at Waikiki Beach (Oahu), we joined a crowd that gathered along the beach to toast and cheer the magnificent sunset. This photo was taken at 1/800 at f4.5… 80 ISO. Zoomed to 30.5mm view. NOTE… The G-12 focal lengths are displayed wider than on your full frame 35mm camera. Multiply the given length x 4 to get the equivalent length. In this case the equivalent length is about 121mm.

A couple records a Kodak moment (and so do I) under a little secluded waterfall at the Twin Falls area of the Road to Hana (Maui).This photo was taken at 1/50 at f4.5… 400 ISO. Zoomed to a 30.5mm view.

This is the view of Waikiki Beach and Honolulu (Oahu) from atop Diamond Head Crater. This Photo was taken at 1/800 at f4… 80 ISO. Zoomed to 30mm view.

Mary Rhodes checks the photo display of her little camera after shooting an almost covered sign reads “Road Closed” in a lava flow field on the Big Island of Hawaii. This Photo was taken at 1/60 at f8… 80 ISO. Zoomed out to 6.1mm view.

I don’t know what plant (Maui) this is but it’s beautiful, tropical and doesn’t grow near my house in Texas. This Photo was taken at 1/250 at f4.5… 640 ISO. Zoomed to a 25mm view.

Waves crash onto jagged, lava pinnacles at Keanae Park on the Drive to Hana (Maui). This Photo was taken at 1/640 at f4.5… 80 ISO. Zoomed to 30.5mm view.

Servers (who also double as entertainers) pour drinks and help rain poncho-garbed guests at the Old Lahaina Luau (Maui). The show, although held outdoors, still went on despite a drizzling rain outdoors, on the night we attended. This Photo was taken at 1/80 at f4.5… 400 ISO. Zoomed to 30.5mm view.

A Green Sea Turtle looks exhausted, as it naps on a black sand beach, after its morning outing into the Pacific to look for food on the Big Island (Hawaii), south of Kona. This Photo was taken at 1/800 at f8… 400 ISO. Zoomed to 30.5mm view.

A cruise ship sits, parked under a Hawaiian rainbow in Lahaina (Maui). The rainbow is a symbol of the Aloha State. This Photo was taken at 1/2000 at f4.5… 80 ISO. Zoomed to 25mm view.

Swimmers on a rocky beach outcropping point toward passing whales at Wai’anapanapa State Park near Hana (Maui). The park has the only public black sand beach on Maui, a freshwater spring, and a lava cave.This Photo was taken at 1/250 at f4.5… 80 ISO. Zoomed to 25mm view.

Leaves of a plant near a walkway sport the graffiti of passersby at Wai’anapanapa State Park near Hana (Maui). This Photo was taken at 1/200 at f2.8… 80 ISO. Zoomed to 6.1mm view.

The fleeting post-sunset twilight gradually reveals a crescent moon and the planet Venus in the western sky over Lahaina (Maui) on our last evening in Hawaii. This Photo was taken at 1/5 at f3.2… 400 ISO. Zoomed out to 9.8mm view.

Recently my wife Mary and I traveled to the Hawaiian Islands taking our palm-sized G-11 camera along to make photographs. I hate dragging along heavy camera equipment while on vacation and have found that this little camera gets the job done quite nicely without all the extra clutter and weight.

The G-11 not only makes photos that are about the same size as my Canon 1D Mark IV professional camera, but it also shoots fine SD video files by just turning a knob. The camera produces H.265 Quicktime movie files, which can be quickly edited and transmitted easily to YouTube or Facebook. These videos were scaled down to 480 pixels wide x 360 pixels high, a standard SD video export size for my Apple Quicktime software.

I used the video feature when we were pleasantly surprised while humpback whale-watching aboard the Pacific Whale Foundation’s catamaran “Ocean Discovery” that sailed out of Lahaina Harbor on Maui on March 5, 2011.

In the first video a mother and a calf humpback whale evaded a group (called a pod) of males by hiding… RIGHT under our boat… much to the joy and amazement of the boat’s crew, naturalist and passengers.

Oh yes, in the audio I am trying to explain what’s going on to our three-year old grandson Collin, who I emailed these videos to soon thereafter.

The males followed behind the retreating female and calf. As they passed, the naturalist dropped a hydrophone (underwater microphone) to record the sounds of the chase and played it over the vessel’s sound system.

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